Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-08
Fires and Casualties,

Two men, engineer and firemen, were
killed in a railway collision Sunday, near
Corinth, Miss.
A frightful scalding accident occurred in
Nagle's. boiler works, at Erie, Pa, where
three men were fatally burned March 81.
On the Bird two Michigan Central railroad
freight trains-26 cars-were demolished by
a collision, near st. Thomas, Canada. Two
brakemen were killed.
A fire in the great cedar forest on the Bra
EOS river, near Morgan, Tex, had, at last
accounts, laid waste over 1900 acres of
timber and was still burning.
On the End and 3rd property to the value
of $4,000 burned at Ligonier, Ind, the
losses beng borne by 10 or IL persons. The
cause OF the fire is unknown.
At Chicopee, Mass, on tho soth, fire de-
stroyed the freight house of the Connecticut
River railroad about noon. The loss on the
house and contents is 100000; insured.
On the Goth the dwelling house occupied
by Mathew Massick, at Ludlowville, Ithaca,
Co., N. Y, was burned down. w. N. Massick
and three children persisted in the flames.
On the 31st ult., the Vance House, a large
frame hotel, and two buildings adjoining
the hotel were burned at Everson, Pa. All
the occupants of the hotel escaped injury.
Loss sl2,COJ, fully insured.
March 81, fire broke out at noon in the
~auctionee1ing establishment of H. E. & E.
Block & Co., st. Louis, and in a short time,
with the assistance Of water destroyed
about $4,000 worth of furniture.
On the 4th, fire in New York city caused
the following losses: Phillip Kurcher, dye
factory, S12,O 0; C. s. Nathan, printer, S1O,-
GOO; Arthur & Bonnell, stationery, $4,000;
on building SS,OOO; fully insured.
Portions of another charred body we're
found in the Richmond Hotel ruins, at
Buffalo: The remains are thought to be
servant, or Mark Osborne, the day clerk.
Near ~Brookhaven, Miss, March 80, Betsy
Cook, colored, went to a field to work,
leaving her three small children to take care
OF the house. On her return she found the
house in ashes and her three children
burned to death.
March fires according to the New York
Daily Commercial Bulletins estimates, cost
the United States and Canada $40, 400, 900, or
$50 900 above tle average in that month
for a dozen years past. The number Of
large fires was extraordinary, there having
and more. At this rate, says the Bulletin,
the fire waste Of 1887 will exceed that Of
1886, which was an exceptional year.
The palace Hotel Del Monte, at Monterey
California, burned from %incendiary fire on
the morning of April 3, with a loss of over
$ $1,5oo, ooo, including the properly Of guests.
and though supplied with abundance of
hose Inc a hook and ladder company be-
longing to tho hotel nothing could be done
to stop the fire. The guests, though in a
panic, all got out without injury, save one
man who nearly burned his hands off slid
building remained except the chimneys and
q heap of ashes.
Tho startling news was received Sunday
morning that Cunard steamship @Scythia
had been wrecked about dusk Saturday
evening 6 miles from Minot Light, in the
breakers off Scituate, Mass. The sea was
running SO high that no vessel could live
in it, and up to three O'Clock Sunday morn
ing nothing had been done for the relief Of
tue Standard steamer, and the 800 people,
passengers and crew on board, on board.
The telegraph wires Frustrated by the storm
cutting off that avenue Of information.
Several %endeavors were made to send out
wrecking vessels, Init had to be abandoned.
Aviolent snow storm, with wind blowing
from A to 50 miles an hour, prevailed dur
ing the prevailed during the night, with an
average fall Of snow Of on foot. A large
amount of damage was done at Block
Island and other points.
1t happily turned out that the report
regarding the Scythia being wrecked was